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PLIERS FOR APPLYING COUPLINGS 0P WIRE.

. No. 400.512. Patented Apr.

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UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARVEY 1). TAYLOR, or KEESEVILLE, NEW YORK.

PLIERS FOR APPLYING COUPLINGS 0 F WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,512, dated April 2, 1889.

Application filed December 3, 1888- Serial No. 292,555@ (No modell) drawn around it, which enable one to apply the link of wire or metal as a band without weldin g the ends of the wire or metal together, as is now done with the pliers such as are now in use. I attain this object by the device illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure l is a side view of the pliers ready for use. Fig. 2 is a side view of the upper member of the pliers detached; Fig. 3 is a side view of the lower part or member and its spring detached. Fig. 4 is a side view of the third part or lower jaw. Fig. 5 represents the link of wireor other metal strip in the form to be applied by my pliers. Fig. 6 represents a link such as is now in use after being applied with pliers having. two jaws or parts only, the ends of which are caught into the closed ends J L and tighten the link about whatever it is to be applied to by closing the handles of the pliers and thereby opening the jaws of the pliers, thus drawing one end of the link, as L, through the other, J, tightly.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures.

In Fig. 4, c 01 represent the mortised or halved portion of lower jaw, O, which fits a similar mortise or half, 0 d, of the lower memher, and the two are held together by a rivet passing through a hole, R, in both. The part B of the lower jaw, O, is a tenon and made to fit into a mortise, E, in the upper member of the pliers, as shown by Fig. 2, and extends the jaws 0 O to catch and hold the free ends K K of the link or bent wire in applying it.

In use the link shown by Fig. 5 is passed tightly around the thing to be coupled, bound, or joined, and the ends K K are passed under the closed end J The jaws I I of the pliers are then applied to the open or free ends K K (grasping them) of the link or wire, and the notch H is caught under the closed end J of the link. The arms of the pliers m n are then pressed together, which causes the jaws O O to clasp firmly with their serrated faces I I the open or free ends K K of the link, while at the same time the lever or jaw P, holding the closed end of the link in its notch H, moves in a direction opposite to that of the jaws O 0 and thus draws the ends K K of the link through the closed end J tightly,'and then by simply bending or turning the pliers over the closed end of the link the fastening is made.

What I claim as my invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is

The pliers described, consisting of two main members or arms and a short connecting member, the upper member, m, having the extension P, and provided with a notch, H, the lower member, 11, having an upper jaw, 0 the connecting member having the jaw O and'being pivoted to the lower member and also to the head of the upper member, as set forth.

.HARVEY D. TAYLOR.

\Vitnesses:

IIENRY MCQUILLIEN,

A. W. BoYNToN. 

